Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...horse up to last week was still holding its own. The Chief of Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...
...compressed appearance, as though someone had squeezed his head in a vise. His suits are custom-made but uninteresting, and always seem a little too tight for him. . . . He is a hard man to imagine in a toga . . . whose indifference to money is such that he can remember offhand how much he was making at any given day in his life, even for singing in choirs...
...story which is most familiar to us to whom Mr. Cabell refers. It is a certain Wiglerus who, in spite of his strange and somewhat comic name, turns out to be none other than the stock Cabell hero, although figuring in a highly exotic environment. One would say, offhand, that the world of the Norse sagas is the last place to look for one of Mr. Cabell's latter-day Jurgens: middle-aged, disillusioned-but-invincibly-romantic, garrulous, priapic...